# About asic-advisers — what this site is and is not

> Where the data comes from, what is deliberately not done with it, and who publishes this site.

## About this site

A search layer over one public register. Not the register itself, not advice, and not a recommendation.

### The source

Everything here comes from ASIC's
 Financial Advisers Dataset ,
published on data.gov.au under
 CC-BY 3.0 AU , together
with ASIC's AFS Licensee and Banned and Disqualified Persons datasets. All
three were collected on **2026-08-19** through the portal's
own API.

89,198 source rows became 42,341 advisers: the source ships one row per
adviser per appointment, and 21,844 advisers have several.

There is nothing new about this data. What did not exist is a way to search
it that a search engine can reach — ASIC's register is a form, and
moneysmart.gov.au publishes no sitemap at all.

### What this site is not

- **Not financial advice**, and not a recommendation of anyone.
Being on the register is the legal minimum to give personal advice.
- **Not the official register.** A status can change the day
after our collection. For anything that matters, use
 ASIC's own register .
- **Not affiliated** with ASIC or the Australian Government.
- **Not a broker.** Where this site invites you to describe what
you need, it passes the enquiry on. We hold no product and take no
commission.

### Two things we deliberately do not do

**We do not match the banned list against adviser names.** ASIC
publishes 7,212 banned or disqualified people separately, and states that those
banned before 31 March 2015 who never returned are not on the advisers register
at all. Matching on names would produce false positives, and a false positive
here accuses a named person of being barred from their profession.

**We do not publish the 43 product flags as adviser competencies.**
They look like what each adviser may advise on. All forty-three carry exactly
the same count, which means they describe the *licensee's*
authorisations copied onto every row. Presenting them otherwise would be a
false statement about a named professional.

### Coverage

Australia. 15,140 of the 42,341 advisers have a current appointment;
the rest have none, which for most simply means they left the industry.

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Página: https://asic-advisers.pages.dev/about/
Fonte: ASIC Financial Advisers Dataset — Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Recolha: 2026-08-19